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No 59/23 July 26, 2023
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits War Martyrs Cemetery
2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Cemetery of CPV Martyrs
3. Great Tradition of Victory - Immortal in Annals of Our Republic
4. KCNA's Detailed Report on Mass Movement Conducted during War
5. DPRK Records Another Success
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits War Martyrs Cemetery
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery on July 25 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
He was accompanied by Minister Kang Sun Nam and other commanding officers of the DPRK Ministry of National Defence and commanders of the services and commanders of large combined units of the Korean People's Army.
Kim Jong Un laid a flower before the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery.
He paid high tribute to the martyrs of the great years who honorably defended the sovereignty and security of the country and people with bloody victory and at dearly cost and provided the precious ideological and moral heritage and tradition of victory as an eternally invariable cornerstone for the mightiness of the DPRK.
He said that the miracle of July 27, the first defenders of the DPRK brought about while reliably safeguarding the outpost of the anti-imperialist struggle in an eastern part of the earth, is a victory of the distinguished and ardent patriotic cause of the army and people of the DPRK who devotedly defended the honor and sovereignty of the country and, at the same time, a great victory of significance in the human history as they inflicted eternally indelible disgrace and defeat on the U.S. imperialism, the chieftain of aggression, and prevented a new world war.
Saying that the precious war victory won by the victorious wartime generation at the cost of their blood and lives and the victory always won in the unyielding confrontation with the U.S. imperialism for 70 years through centuries and generations are a genuine example of defending the country and peace which clearly impressed the whole world with the entity of the people's country and just state that no force can conquer, he stressed this is the proud dignity and prestige established in the 5 000-year-long history of the Korean nation.
A country, great in history and tradition and steadfast in succession, is invincible, he said, affirming that the DPRK, the most dignified and independent powerful country in the world, will always emerge victorious when the heroic spirit and fighting trait displayed in the great years are creditably inherited as the irresistible might peculiar to the Korean revolution.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Cemetery of CPV Martyrs
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited the cemetery of martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) in Hoechang County of South Phyongan Province to pay a high tribute to them on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Presidium member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Song Nam, department director of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.
The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army (KPA) lined up at the cemetery.
The national anthems of the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were solemnly played. Amid the playing of the wreath-laying music, a wreath in the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid at the monument to the CPV martyrs.
Written on the ribbons of the wreath were letters reading "Martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers will Be Immortal".
Kim Jong Un paid a silent tribute in memory of the CPV martyrs who unsparingly dedicated their precious lives to the righteous war of the Korean people to repel the imperialist aggression.
Then, he placed a flower before the grave of Mao Anying at the cemetery and paid a tribute to him.
He made a round of the cemetery, together with senior officials accompanying him.
He said that the noble soul and spirit of sons and daughters of the Chinese people who supported the Korean people in the sacred anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle with their heroic sacrifice and made an important contribution to the war victory are obviously recorded in history as a foundation and model of the DPRK-China friendship to be immortal along with the socialist ideal.
Noting that the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War was a war of justice to defend their dignity, honor and sovereignty as well as the world peace and security and an acute political and military confrontation with the imperialist dominationist forces which was staged on behalf of the peace-loving forces and the progressive mankind, he stressed that the great victory won by the peoples of the DPRK and China at the cost of their blood is invariably displaying its great vitality still now, century after century.
He said that the noble life of the CPV martyrs would be immortal in the hearts of the Korean people and that the history and tradition of unity between the peoples of the two countries, who forged the bonds of kinship in the sacred struggle for accomplishing the cause of anti-imperialist independence and socialism and have resolutely smashed the reactionary offensive of the imperialists by dint of justice and truth, would be reliably carried forward through generations.
Great Tradition of Victory - Immortal in Annals of Our Republic
We are now living in a historic era – a new heyday in the cause of building a prosperous nation with an invincible army, the prime of national prestige and overall national power. It is against this backdrop that our people are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the great victory in war with confidence in sure victory, and an exceptional pride and confidence of a victorious nation.
President Kim Il Sung led the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953) to victory with his Juche-oriented military idea and the outstanding art of military command. He repelled the armed invasion of the U.S. and the allied imperialist forces in their attempt to swallow up our young Republic in its infancy, shattering into pieces the American myth of “mightiness”, and honorably safeguarded the dignity and sovereignty of our Republic and peace for mankind.
President Kim Il Sung inspired all the officers and men of the People’s Army and the entire people to the struggle for victory in the war, having set forth, as early as in the first period of the war, the original ideas of turning the war into an all-people war and of defeating the enemy’s numerical and technical advantage by dint of politico-ideological, and strategic and tactical advantage.
President Kim Il Sung visited the soldiers on the bullet-showered heights and the people in the bombarded rear time and again to instill the invincible strength and courage into their minds and bestowed his solicitude on them. Encouraged by the dedication, leadership and warm love of his, our army and people performed military miracles and heroic feats unprecedented in the world history of wars.
Keeping deep in their hearts such slogans as “For the Party and the leader!”, “For the fatherland and people!”, the officers and men of the People’s Army waged a fierce anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle to perform heroic feats and achieve legendary victories one after another that sent the waves of awe throughout the world. Amid such waves, the so-called “undefeated division” of the U.S. was annihilated on this land, the U.S. air pirates boasting of their “air supremacy” were shot down one after another in the Korean sky and the U.S. heavy cruiser that professed itself as a “floating island” was reduced to a lonely, underwater ghost.
The hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War was an ideological showdown which taught us the philosophy that no aggressors could be a match for the people who rose up for a do-or-die battle, firmly rallied behind their leader, no matter how strong the aggressors might be, being armed to their teeth.
The precious victory and the tradition of invincibility achieved and established by the gallant officers and men of the People’s Army and the heroic Korean people, are etched in gold letters in the history of the country. They are the accomplishments attributable to the wise leadership of President Kim Il Sung, an outstanding military strategist and an iron-willed commander.
Today, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, with his ingenuity in military strategy and outstanding courage of a peerless, illustrious commander born of heaven, is achieving decisive victories one after another in the fierce showdown with formidable imperialism, each signal victory deserving a note in the history of our nation. He is thus adding lustre to the great tradition of victory of heroic Korea.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is of the firm belief that strength constitutes the very root of national existence and the guarantee for development. Based on such a conviction, he cut through danger zones and turbulent airs, and braved rough seas to make it to the powder smoke-covered training fields, inspired our soldiers with courage and confidence in victory, thus consolidating rock-firm the world’s strongest self-defense capabilities.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un has made, all by himself, his way to the building of the matchless national power, leaving indelible, sacred traces. Under his leadership, the Korean People’s Army has now grown into an invincible revolutionary force, armed with our Party’s Juche-oriented military idea and tactics, under the uplifted banner of modelling the entire army on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. It has also grown into the world’s strongest invincible army equipped with absolute weaponry that would send the enemies shuddering with fear, as well as the powerful crack army possessing formidable strike power and overwhelming military strength that can surely overpower all sorts of tyranny of the imperialists.
The great tradition of heroic Korea - established in the depths of the forest of Mt. Paektu through bloody battles against the Japanese imperialists, the very tradition that glorified the great era of victory in the war - will remain immortal in the annals of our Republic.
KCNA's Detailed Report on Mass Movement Conducted during War
Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Sunday made public a detailed report on the great vitality of the all-people mass movement widely conducted in the front and the rear in hearty response to the appeal of the leader during the 1950-1953 Fatherland Liberation War.
The report said that the heroic servicepersons and civilians of the DPRK opened the roads of victorious advance, vigorously conducting an all-people mass movement in the front and the rear during the fierce war, in hearty response to the appeal of President Kim Il Sung for the all-people resistance "Go All Out for Victory in the War".
Stressing that the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung who powerfully aroused the army and people to victory in the war was the motive power that gave full play to mass heroism across the country, it went on to say:
He set forth the basic strategy of the revolutionary war for turning the Fatherland Liberation War into an all-people resistance and defeating the aggressors by the united efforts of the popular masses and made sure that unique mass movements of Korean style were launched on a wide scale to give full play to the strong mental power peculiar to the Korean people.
The radio addresses, delivered by the President to all the Korean people on June 26 and July 8, Juche 39 (1950), made all the people harden their determination to fight for the leader and the country to the last, stirring up the movement of volunteering for military service on the war front.
This all-people movement, vigorously launched at the beginning of the war, gained further momentum day by day, with the number of volunteers reaching more than 1 249 000 in mid-August. It made a great contribution to steadily reinforcing the Korean People's Army (KPA) ranks and increasing its striking power on the front.
With a deep insight into the position of company in increasing the KPA combat ability, the President took the initiative in the model company movement in October 1951, on the basis of the revolutionary work method created during the anti-Japanese war.
The first model company was produced in February 1952 on the occasion of the Day of Army Founding under the meticulous guidance of the great brilliant commander.
The ranks of model companies and model soldiers had rapidly increased with each passing day, bringing up nearly 400 model companies and tens of thousands of model soldiers in the whole army in a matter of one year.
The "My Height" movement, launched by the KPA officers and men on the front to defend the heights of the country at the cost of their lives, true to the militant slogan "Don't give up even an inch of land to the enemy!" set forth by the President, was a manifestation of their noble patriotic spirit and self-sacrificing spirit.
Hero Han Kye Ryol was the pioneer of this movement. In April 1951, he heroically defended a nameless hill with his 12 comrades-in-arms, saying at his last moment that "Height of the country is mine."
The "My Height" movement, conducted by servicepersons themselves, spread to all the frontline units and sub-units from the summer of 1951.
The revenge-register movement was a powerful mass movement launched by the brave KPA soldiers to work off the grudge of fallen comrades-in-arms and civilians during the war.
The flame of the movement was kindled in the company which produced Hero Kang Ho Yong, who threw himself down the group of enemies with a hand grenade in his mouth when he was badly wounded in the battle in February 1951. The movement turned the whole front into a scene of annihilating the enemy.
The movement for winning the "Minchong" weaponry, launched by the KPA in hearty response to the Party's militant call for annihilating more enemies by giving full play to the might of combat weapons, reflects the noble patriotic spirit of the victorious wartime generation.
In April 1951, Hero Jo Kun Sil killed and wounded numerous enemies by pressing the trigger of his heavy machine-gun with his jaw when he was injured in both arms and legs in a battle. The honorable title of "Minchong" was awarded to his heavy machine gun No. 236, and this was the origin of the movement.
Amid the flames of the powerful mass movement, the title of "Minchong" weaponry was awarded to over 3 460 weapons and combat equipment in a year alone.
During the three-year war, the mass movement of patriotism and innovation was vigorously conducted at workplaces and villages to fully display the irresistible might peculiar to heroic Korea.
From the beginning of the war, the civilians in the rear turned out in the mass movement for wartime production under such slogans as "The rear is, as it were, the front!" and "Let us produce and supply, even one bullet and rifle, more and faster for the fighting valiant People's Army soldiers!"
With the single mind to produce and supply more weapons to the KPA soldiers more quickly, the working class across the country conducted various patriotic movements including the multi-machine tending movement, the movement for using time in a rational way, the movement for new creative ideas and the campaign for lowering the production cost.
In the whole period of the war, transport workers waged a vigorous campaign to create new norms in the volume of freight transport and the running distance.
Workers and technicians of the Pyongyang Locomotive Section launched a campaign to reduce the locomotive repair period and carry more goods under the slogan "Let us mobilize all locomotives for the front without stopping!"
A mass movement was briskly launched in the rural areas to ensure the victory in the war with increased food production.
After the first torch of the plow-woman movement in the spring of 1951, the movement developed into a mass movement, with more than 3 650 women in North Phyongan Province and over 2 690 women in South Phyongan Province involved in 1951. The number of those involved in the movement increased to at least 5 000 in Hwanghae Province alone in 1952.
The high-yielding movement, started with the fact that the President highly appreciated a model peasant in Cholwon County of Kangwon Province in August 1950 who made a success in rice farming by improving farming methods and introducing high-yielding seeds, developed into an all-people emulation drive for high-yielding, promoting the wartime increased food production.
A movement for donating funds for weaponry was conducted on a large scale amid the high enthusiasm of all the people.
People from all walks of life took an active part in the movement and, consequently, a lot of cash, grain and precious metals were donated and planes, tanks and warships named after "Rodongja" (worker), "Minchong" (democratic youth), "Taehaksaeng" (university student), "Sonyon" (child) and others were sent to the front.
A campaign for donating relief grains to the front was launched among peasants as a mass patriotic movement. This campaign was originated from the fact that Kim Il Sung sent a letter of thanks to peasants of Phyongwon County in November 1952, after receiving their joint letter along with the relief grains they donated to the front.
In South Phyongan Province alone, 6 390 straw-bags of relief grains were donated till late February 1953. All peasants across the country participated in the campaign which lasted for six months from early November 1952 to late April 1953.
The mass movement, which gave full play to the indomitable mental power, ardent patriotism, burning hostility and popular heroism of the army and the civilians who turned out in the do-or-die resistance, rallied as one in mind around the great leader during the war, is shining as the great vitality that brought about the immortal history of victory in the war and made the DPRK always emerge victorious in the course of its development and as a proud national custom to be carried forward forever.
The confrontation attempts by the US and south Korea, which might bring a new chain of nuclear crises to the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia, are approaching an intolerable critical point.
On July 12, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea conducted a test-fire of a new-type ICBM Hwasongpho-18, demonstrating that there will be a continuation of alarming events on the road of its endeavour to build up its national defence capabilities as long as the forces hostile to it increase their military threat and challenges.
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